OK movies with big problems but Mick likes ’em anyway

So the running theme — all right, the lousy running theme — of this week’s podcast is this: Mick likes these three films, they’re OK, but they suffer from some big problems.

“The Valet” is a French movie about a nerdy valet with no money who ends up living with a fashion model by accident. Mick says the first and second acts were good, but the movie just kind of “dribbled off into nothingness.” Nevertheless, he enjoyed it.

“Next” stars Nicholas Cage as Cris Johnson, a psychic with the ability to see two minutes into the future, and Julianne Moore as an FBI agent trying to find a nuclear bomb hidden somewhere in Los Angeles. The movie turns into a love story between Cage’s Johnson and Jessica Biel, but in the last 35 minutes or so it gets “inventive and fun.” But not great.

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